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Melinda Waffle

Education Week: 'Curriculum' Definition Raises Red Flags - 2 views

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  • students learn
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      Melinda Waffle on 24 Mar 11
       
      Learn? Or memorize?
  • To some, that term can mean a scripted, day-to-day lesson plan, while to others, it’s a lean set of big ideas that can be tackled in many ways
  • multiple meanings of the word “curriculum.”
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  • Whether “curriculum” means a high-level outline or whether it means the content of a six-week science lesson affects the conversation
  • it is entirely possible to agree on central ideas for the common standards and leave schools to teach them their own way. It’s a crucial distinction, she said, between guidelines and “operational curriculum.”
  • “What’s stirring everything up here is the word ‘common,’ ” she said. “It suggests everything is the same, when people know that curriculum has to be responsive. But we can think of ‘common’ as more like a town common, a place where we all meet.”
    • Melinda Waffle
      Melinda Waffle on 24 Mar 11
       
      Does everyone know that curriculum has to be responsive?
Claude Almansi

CEC | Ask Arne: A Conversation with the Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) Member... - 0 views

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shared by Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Claude Almansi on 29 Sep 11
     
    "As I have travelled across the country visiting schools and classrooms and talking with teachers and parents, I have heard many questions about our plans at the U.S. Department of Education to support children with disabilities, their families, and the teachers who educate them and fight for them daily. To hear more about the issues affecting students with disabilities and their teachers, I asked CEC to contact members through an e-mail blast. Your response was overwhelming. Though CEC received more questions than we could possibly answer here, I have worked with your leadership to identify some of the central questions for educators of children with disabilities, and I have worked with my staff at the Department so that we can address them in this document. I would like to thank CEC members and all teachers of children with disabilities for their outstanding compassion and commitment and for the range of complex skills and talents you bring to teaching your students every day."
Vicki Davis

Adobe Announces Finalists for the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards! (Adobe Featured... - 2 views

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  • Vicki Davis on 13 Sep 11
     
    adobe has their 2011 Adobe Design Achievement awards that honors the best student work with the program. These students will travel to Taipei, Taiwan and showcased in a ceremony. Here is information on the competition.
hperetz

Cooperative Catalyst - 15 views

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  •  I believe it is ideal to invite the student to participate in understanding and creating the goals of their learning.
  • We should allow them to be an active part of the conversation and thinking around the what, how and why of their learning.
  • By always dictating the outcomes, we turn our leaning into checklist to be completed, passively learning what is expected of us and never reaching beyond the boundaries of the rubrics or standards.
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  • should be utilized as sign posts or maps of where learning can and might go. I personally believe that rubrics and standards can be as limiting as they are useful.
Mrs. Jepson

Zamzar - Free online file conversion - 0 views

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  • Mrs. Jepson on 30 Aug 09
     
    convert files for free! ie. Publisher to pdf!
Mireille Jansma

Charlie Rose - A conversation with Malcolm Gladwell (Outliers) - 0 views

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  • Mireille Jansma on 22 Apr 09
     
    Must see. On success, talent, motivation and opportunity / luck.
Ruth Howard

A Sense of Purpose (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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shared by Ruth Howard on 12 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ruth Howard on 12 Sep 09
     
    I like the ndividual student research blog -accessable to anyone and a tool for tracking students and the wiki also showing group contributions by individuals for all to see. The conversation re video engaging other aspects that writing may not is potent and portent no doubt.
Vicki Davis

Kindle DX: Sleeper Agent for Amazon's Future | Green Business | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Bezos was back onstage to announce a new incarnation of the Kindle just three months after unveiling the previous one
  • The paragraph above is partially incorrect. PDFs can be directly dropped into the Kindle via a USB cable. Other documents—Word files, image files, etc.—need to go through the conversion.
  • This great chart from a college-bookstore association shows where all the money goes and also implies that 55.9 percent of textbook costs could be saved if they were delivered digitally, bypassing college bookstores.
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  • Students appear to be the only demographic that the DX is actually well-suited to serve.
  • Vicki Davis on 11 May 09
     
    New kindle DX - 3 months after the other - what is the difference: "the big differences are that the Kindle DX is 4 inches larger than the one you bought last month and comes installed with a PDF reader." $489 price tag Some of my students are reading on their itouch now.
Rob Jacobs

Wikinomics» Blog Archive » Obama should look to Portugal on how to fix schools - 0 views

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  • First, it allows teachers to step off the stage and start listening and conversing instead of just lecturing. Second, the teacher can encourage students to discover for themselves, and learn a process of discovery and critical thinking instead of just memorizing the teacher’s information. Third, the teacher can encourage students to collaborate among themselves and with others outside the school. Finally, the teacher can tailor the style of education to their students’ individual learning styles.
    • Rob Jacobs
      Rob Jacobs on 24 Jun 09
       
      Great teaching. Technology is just a tool. This is the model that suits students needs, technology or not.
Dave Truss

Is Your Boss a Bully? Stop Being the Target. - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org - 7 views

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  • Once bullying is successful it rapidly becomes a habit — neurons that fire together, wire together — address it when it begins.
  • Dave Truss on 20 Nov 09
     
    Once bullying is successful it rapidly becomes a habit - neurons that fire together, wire together - address it when it begins.
Dave Truss

VoiceThread - Group conversations around images, documents, and videos - 19 views

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  • Dave Truss on 20 Nov 09
     
    ISB VoiceThreads show a variety of different ways to use VT in the classroom
Suzie Nestico

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and JESS3 - 6 views

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  • Suzie Nestico on 02 Jul 11
     
    Interesting infographics and behaviorgraphics about social networks and social media in general.
Ed Webb

Liberal Education after the Pandemic | AAUP - 1 views

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  • The current massive and unanticipated experiment in online education could transform higher education as we know it. We should begin these difficult conversations about the future of the liberal arts now, in cyberspace, before the new normal takes shape—whenever that may be. Even if we feel trapped in our own homes and beset with anxiety and cabin fever, we also have an opportunity to reconsider the aims of higher education not in the abstract but in this concrete historical moment, with attention to specific institutional needs, public policy proposals, ideological pressures, and the overarching economic crisis.
  • A genuine commitment to ethical, historically aware, egalitarian, or democratic principles can land an individual in a world of trouble. I am thinking, for example, of the basic scientific literacy, historical awareness, and ethical commitment that equip an individual citizen to recognize the expertise of infectious disease specialists and reject the common sense of neighbors or the priorities and demands of an employer—or to spot the bogus claims, fundamental incompetence, or ethical depravity of some elected leaders. Such scientific literacy and basic familiarity with statistical analysis allow nonexperts to understand the arguments of climatologists and reject the sophistry of coworkers or talk show hosts or governors who point out, for example, that “the climate has always been changing.”
  • The reason that individual institutions cannot pitch such potential outcomes under ordinary circumstances is that these intellectual faculties serve the public good but do not necessarily advance the economic interests or career objectives of individual prospective or current students, especially those incurring significant debt. Being a whistleblower, for example, is generally a costly, painful career move—but the public needs to know nonetheless if the US military is shooting civilians in the streets of Baghdad; or the pharmaceutical industry is engineering a profitable opioid epidemic; or the health insurance industry is denying legitimate claims.
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  • just as the current crisis represents an opportunity for the people who have been working hard to privatize everything imaginable, dismantle public education, sink net neutrality, and align higher education with the demands of prospective employers and industry moguls (think here of the interventions of the Koch brothers in higher education, for example), it also represents an opportunity to push for the basic conditions under which a liberal education might properly serve its public functions. We should use these months to advocate for the kinds of public policies, such as tuition-free higher education, that recognize liberal education as a common good. We must articulate the reasons why a liberal education is in fact a common good and why a liberal education is disfigured if it is made to promote the demands of prospective employers.
  • We need a society capable of devising new and more humane social contracts, new political economies, new food and energy grids, and sustainable use of resources—whether or not these projects produce financial dividends for individual graduates or for their employers. An accessible, publicly funded liberal education decoupled from the demands of industry and prospective employers is the best way to prepare people to do these things.
  • we should use these months of confinement to strategize about a long-term case for liberal education and for public investment in an educated citizenry. Now is the time to invest some of our intellectual capital in education advocacy that ultimately makes a difference not only in the lives of students but also for the collective well-being of our nation and the world
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